On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:03:38 +0100 Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> skribis: > > > In Guix they aren't used typically (everything gets linked > > dynamically); > > I think they’re used for ‘pandoc’. > > Also, in general, we don’t want to make static linking impossible, so > we could move .a files to a separate output as for ‘glibc’. > > Ludo’. If I recall correctly there was a discussion some months back about Haskell binaries being smaller when linked statically.
